~HANDTOOLS showed a strong down trend over the last 3 months. During this period ~HANDTOOLS lost -16.66% and saw a maximum drawdown of -20.35%. There were 3 short signals during this period that returned a cumulative of +6.82% to investors.

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~HANDTOOLS has been outperforming the SP500 index in recent time. Over the last 2 years 11 months and 14 days, ~HANDTOOLS underperformed the SP500 index on 49% days. Which indicates that on days ~HANDTOOLS underperforms the SP500 index, it's performance is marginally worse than on the days it outperforms the SP500 index.

During the last three months ~HANDTOOLS was mostly loss making and delivered on average -0.28% per day. It's best return during this period (of +3.27%) was on Wednesday, 12 Dec, 2018. While it's worst loss in the same period (of -4.53%) was on Tuesday, 4 Dec, 2018. There was initially a bearish trend during this period which started on 4 Oct, 2018 and went on till 12 Oct, 2018. The trend delivered -10.27% losses to investors. This was followed by a bullish trend that started on 30 Oct, 2018 and ended on 2 Nov, 2018. This bullish trend delivered +6.53% to investors.

~HANDTOOLS had 3 profitable and 9 loss making months over the last year. During the last year, ~HANDTOOLS underperformed SP500 index on monthly return basis. ~HANDTOOLS was also a more risky investment than SP500 index as it's worst month in the last year, Oct 2018, returned -15.84% compared to -7.75% returned by SP500 index in Dec 2018. ~HANDTOOLS had a longer winning streak of losing months than SP500 index. It went down in 4 straight months (from Jan 2018 to Apr 2018) during which period it delivered -10.62%.

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~HANDTOOLS is becoming more volatile overall. In comparison, the SP500 index is seeing a rise in volatility. During the last three months, there was a significant surge in ~HANDTOOLS's volatility from 19 Sep, 2018 to 24 Oct, 2018. While there was a significant surge in the SP500 index's volatility from 19 Sep, 2018 to 29 Oct, 2018.

Advanced/professional short-term investors should note that ~HANDTOOLS has significant positive skewness in it's return distribution. This indicates that investors can expect ~HANDTOOLS to recover from drawdowns quickly. Which makes ~HANDTOOLS a good candidate for investing on short-term bullish trends or even counter-trends hoping for a pull-back.

~HANDTOOLS has more chance of extreme outcomes than the SP500 index. Therefore, ~HANDTOOLS must receive a lower allocation than SP500 in your portfolio. SP500 index usually has shorter drawdown period than ~HANDTOOLS.

On a general note (since you are interested in ~HANDTOOLS), three instruments that deserve special mention are TNDM, NFEC and PRQR. They have all outperformed the market and must be closely watched for investment opportunities.

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